July Recap

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July 3rd, Kenwood

The prairie out at Kenwood is really starting to wake up.

Prairie beginning to bloom

Oxeye sunflowers

Black-eyed Susans

Great Blue Lobelia beginning to bloom

unique 3-headed, gray headed coneflower

gray headed coneflower

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July 8th, Farm & Force Rd

So many sights out in the swamps.

common liverwort

Pearl Crescent

Young assassin beetle

Cemetery Rd - a very different view from the early spring migration.

Willow gall (looks like a pinecone)

Invasive purple loosestrife

purple loosestrife (invasive)

Woolgrass

Bridge over Shreve Creek

Shreve Creek - through the Killbuck Marsh

Swamp roses and Day lilies

Common Milkweed

Swamp Milkweed

Common Milkweed

Wild Senna

Wild Senna

Yellow Waterlily

Dragonfly on wool grass in front of yellow-waterlilies

Startled a pair of common gallinule

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July 10th, Barnes Preserve

The woods are still full of blooms if you look close enough.

Fruit of honeysuckle

Agrimony

Hoary Skullcap

Symmetry of the self-heal

Side view of the same self heal

Blooming cattail

Fruit on poison ivy

Sumac fruit

invasive spreading hedge parsley

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July 13th, Wooster Memorial Park

More flowers opening in the prairie. In the woods the jewelweed pods are ripening. Ghost pipe emerging after the overnight rains. 

The prairie adding more blooms

purple and grey coneflower, oxeye sunflower, bee balm

bee balm

rattlesnake master buds

seedpod of the jewelweed

popped seedpod of the jewelweed

ghost pipe (parasitic)

lopseed

common milkweed

Sycamore Tree

Sycamore Tree

Sycamore Tree

Reed canary grass

fungi

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July 23rd, Hocking Hills Cabin

Every year we vacation at "the cabin" down in the Hocking Hills region. This year we didn't go to any of the parks (too many people, too many active cases nearby) so Noah and I did our nature observing around the cabin. Not pictured - 5-lined skink!!!!

Tall and straight tulip tree forest

Lopseed

Lopseed

Wood Sorrel

Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare) - I believe

St. John's Wort

Fruit of the Autumn Olive

Autumn Olive

Autumn Olive

meadow katydid on a deptford pink

Meadow Katydid on a Deptford Pink

Fallen Tulip Tree Leaf after the rain

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July 26th, Barnes Preserve

Sights at Barnes Preserve in the morning.

Obedient plant

Bee Balm

St John's Wort

Carex Sedge

Honeysuckle fruits

Sweet Joe Pye

First of Year Hickory Tussock Caterpillar

Cattails moving in

Allegheny Monkey flower

Swamp Milkweed

Ripening bramble berries

Blue vervain

Queen Anne's Lace

Monarch

Sumac

Boneset beginning to bud

Little wood satyr

Someone ate all the ripe elderberries